Adult Library: Equity & Diversity

Barndt, Joseph, Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America,
Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis,MN,
ISBN#0-8066-2576-7, 1991
Analyses racism as it is today, how it has changed or not changed. Focuses on the task of dismantling racism.

Magida, Arthur J. & Stuart M. Matlins, edd., How to be a Perfect Stranger (Vols. 1 & 2): a guide to etiquette in other people's ceremonies,
Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock VT,
ISBN#1-893361-01-2; -02-0, 2002
Lively, straightforward guides to the basic services and ceremonies of all major religions and denominations in the United States.

Quaker Studies Program, Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: a developmental approach,
Teachers College Press, NY,
ISBN#0-8077-3637-6, 1997
Provides both a "how-to" and a conceptual framework to help teachers and trainers adapt anti-racism education for their programs.

Saunders, Deborah Ann, Equality,
Southeastern YM, Gainesville FL,2000.
36th Annual J. Barnard Walton Lecture: An essay which addresses the need to faithfully follow the testimony of equality. 29 pp.

Selleck, Linda B, Gentle Invaders: Quaker Women Educators and Racial Issues during the Civil War and Reconstruction,
Friends United Press, Richmond, IN,
ISBN#0-944350-30-5, 1995
Study of a diverse group of Quaker women inspired by God and a belief in human equality. Looks into the roadblocks as well as the victories over the culture of that time.

Woolrych, Liamani, Communicating across Culture: A Report ,
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 1991
In 1992-3 Liamani Woolych received a Joseph Rountree fellowship to work with Friends on the topic of cross-cultural communication. She visits meetings across Britain which exposes to us the fact that racism among Friends reflects the society at large. Her book challenges and enables Friends to make changes within our Religious Society.